To: Strategerist
... the mistaken impression that Evolution and Abiogenesis are the same thing. Correct. This is all that Darwin ever had to say on the subject of life's origin:
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Source, Origin of Species, 6th ed., last chapter, last sentence, which you can check
here.
31 posted on
01/20/2005 1:20:09 PM PST by
PatrickHenry
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... the mistaken impression that Evolution and Abiogenesis are the same thing.
Correct. This is all that Darwin ever had to say on the subject of life's origin:
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Just what was Mr. Darwin trying to say in this part of the paragraph?
Perhaps that "life" itself was breathed into whatever form or forms was/were placed here on earth to begin with? And if so, is he not tying Abiogenesis and Evolution together with this statement along with the equation of the theory of Intelligent Design??
440 posted on
01/21/2005 2:56:37 PM PST by
BedRock
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